The trick is to get your computer to answer an email that will trigger it to get it’s IP and send it to your email (or in this case your mobile’s text email address.)

Enter Automator

You will want to make an Automator workflow (which you will later save as an application) that will:

1. Open a website that display’s your computer’s IP
2. Extract that text (IP)
3. Put it in an email and send it to you (in my case my text address)

Note: You can use a website like myipaddress.com to get your IP but the problem is it has all the HTML with it which will look like crap in an email or split the text into like 10 of them. I made a script that shows only the IP at http://pahi3.com/myip.php which you can use. Alternatively you can use your own by creating a PHP file with: <?=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']?>

You can find the first three actions under the Internet category and obviously the last two under Email. You can just use your email if you have a smartphone but I personally thing its way doper to put my [PHONENUMBER]@tmomail.net address for a simple SMS.

After you’ve created that save it as a workflow so you can modify it later if you need to but also as an application. It’s the application that will actually be run by the AppleScript in the next step.

Open up Script Editor and type this in it where textmemyip is the filename of the Automator application you just saved. Make sure they’re in the same directory like in Documents.

Save that as a script where you saved the application. Note that anytime you try to open that in Script Editor, even if you open the program first and open it through File » Open it will run. It makes testing a PITA so be prepared.

Lastly open up Mail then Preferences and create a rule to run the script, which will run the Automator application.

Some people might want more protection by using a more coded subject message and specifying your own email address as an additional condition (specifying “all” conditions met) but I personally aren’t worried about accidentally getting my own IP from somebody else’s subject. Furthermore there’s no telling what email address I might use to send the email from anyway.

So there you have it: your computer will get it’s own IP and sent it to your email or text message. Just make sure Mail receives new messages on a short enough basis if you’re still using POP3 so you don’t have to sit around waiting for it.

Sweet, huh?

My Blackberry (which I love to death despite its behind-the-times functionality) usually loads average web pages at a brisk 2 minutes or so. And thats over Wi-Fi! Today I was browsing some of my websites and those that were light on images clocked in at far less than 60 seconds. Obviously most mobile browsers are antiquated to say the least, and images are necessary for web design but sometimes typography still trumphs imagery.

Give it a try and see how you match up.

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Enter the Curve. This smartphone has the option to delete emails from the server when they are removed from the phone. Add to this the fact that Gmail has since gone IMAP and you have a triad of email portals that are all synchronized.

Step 1. Configure your Blackberry

While in your messages, hit Menu and navigate to Messages Options -> Email Reconciliation -> Delete On: Mailbox & Handheld

Step 2. Configure Mail.app for IMAP Gmail

Add a new account and set Account Type: IMAP and fill in the rest of your gmail credentials.

Step 3. Enable IMAP in Gmail

Now, when you delete an email from your phone it will be removed from Gmail and Mail as well. (If you delete it from Gmail or Mail it will delete from the Blackberry but only after several hours when it reconciles with the server.)